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EPA Workers Speak Up for Public Health. Then Trump Officials Sent Them Home.

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US Environmental Protection Agency placed 139 employees on administrative leave Thursday, an agency spokesperson confirmed, after they signed a “Stand Up for Science” petition using their official titles and EPA positions.  The affected employees received an email, shared […]

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EPA Has Terminated Over $15 Million in Funding for “Forever Chemicals” Research

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The EPA said in May that it will delay enforcement on the drinking water limits for PFOA and PFOS until 2031.

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California Rolls on With Electric Trucks, Despite Trump’s Roadblocks

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Wes Lowe uses so much Claritin that he started an Amazon subscription to avoid running out. His kids take two asthma medications. This reflects the normalcy of pollution in California’s San Joaquin Valley, where residents breathe some of the dirtiest air in […]

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Trump’s Funding Cuts Leave Alaska Native Village in the Dark, Stalling Clean Energy Dreams

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For the fewer than a hundred people that make up the entire population of Port Heiden, Alaska, fishing provides both a paycheck and a full dinner plate. Every summer, residents of the Alutiiq village set out on commercial boats to […]

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Trump’s EPA Rollbacks: Trading Clean Air for Wealthy Plant Owners’ Profits

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) claimed on Wednesday that its plan to eviscerate power plant pollution standards will save the US about $1 billion a year. In reality, though, this represents a starkly uneven trade-off, experts say. The […]

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Trump’s EPA Plans to Claim US Power Sector Emissions Are Insignificant. It’s absurd.

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump’s administration is set to claim planet-heating pollution spewing from US power plants is so globally insignificant it should be spared any sort of climate regulation. But, in fact, the volume of these emissions is stark—if the US power sector were […]

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Prepping Cities for Climate Chaos Isn’t “Woke,” but Team Trump Is Killing EPA Resiliency Grants

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Thomasville, Georgia, has a water problem. Its treatment system is far out of date, posing serious health and environmental risks. “We have wastewater infrastructure that is old,” said Sheryl Sealy, the assistant city manager for this city of 18,881 near the […]

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Study Finds High Levels of Roundup-Type Weedkiller in Tampons in the UK

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Toxic pesticide levels have been found in tampons at levels 40 times higher than the legal limit for drinking water. Traces of glyphosate, a pesticide linked to cancer, has been found at very high levels in […]

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Trump Administration Aims to Roll Back Limits on Toxic “Forever Chemicals” in Drinking Water

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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration on Wednesday announced plans to rescind and postpone rules limiting “forever chemicals” in drinking water that were enacted under the Biden administration and designed to prevent millions of people from exposure to these persistent and dangerous contaminants. […]

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Trump Dismantled 30 Years of Environmental Justice in 100 Days

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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration Tucked inside the Altgeld Gardens public housing project on Chicago’s far South Side, there’s a yellow brick wall filled with hundreds of names. It stands as a memorial to the friends and family members in this community who died, often due […]

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